I remembered this photo from a version of RoseLee Goldberg’s “Performance Art” from 1979. For a whole combination of reasons, I re – looked it up. Buckminster Fuller as Baron Meduse and Merce Cunningham as the mechanical monkey from The Ruse of the Medusa in 1948.

What a couple of guys.

“Inspiration is the magic moment between activity and inactivity. I’ve often found these moments of inspiration when I’m on the road, driving in the middle of a long car journey, perhaps when I’m having a conversation with the person next to me. Suddenly an inspiration will come to me, stimulated by the exchange of ideas, by intense interaction, and by forgetting myself. Ideas become clearer and images present themselves and emerge in my mind. They come to me so strongly at such moments that their execution becomes inevitable.

I’ve never believed that things can actually be invented. Everything exists already and everything has been done and re-done. Pure invention doesn’t exist; rather we try to improve or redo what already exists, but in our own ways, with our own backgrounds and education, by arranging things and making them understandable to people in the present day. Millions of Christs on the cross have been painted by so many artists over the last two thousand years, but no two Christs are alike. Each artist leaves his own mark, and brings his own sensibility to the image. Either you like an artists sensibility or you don’t, but in any case the invention and creativity are only a personal appreciation of our physical environment.

Innovation is part of the creative process. I’ve tried to make use of all the things I’ve done since the day I was born to innovate in the artistic domain in which I’ve chosen to express myself. Everyone in the history of art should try to form a link in the chain of creative evolution.”

Is kind of how things feel at the minute. In a good way, but with the potential for the plates to start falling. Having made the decision to make the most of my income earning potential while there still is an arts sector, I’d best think on with it….

The Living Spaces project at The Academy suffered a slight hiccough, which hopefully we are now over. I’m still not quite sure that the project has yet ‘solidified’ in my head. It really needs to, and sooner rather than later. I’m only now starting to plan for the next Schools of Creativity project with South Wirral High. Tomorrow’s top job. Combine this with managing the staff CPD project at Marsden Heights community College -  Marsden Heights blog, developing a similar project with staff at The Academy, continuing work with Holy Trinity primary (chickens will arrive soon!) AND continuing business development work with More Music AND Whitewood & Fleming.

Of course, that’s all aside from the two projects where I actually get to make some art………Doesn’t look too bad at all…….